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ARMADILLO, THE GAY ASIAN ATRALIAN FIREFIGHTER
* gay asian firefighter *
After tablishg himself on the Chigo theater scene lol productns of “Hamlet, ” “Macbeth” and “Objects the Mirror, ” Daniel Kyri has ma a succsful transn to episodic televisn, starrg as Darren Rter, an openly gay Black firefighter, on the h NBC procral drama “Chigo Fire. Durg that time, he has been able to work “anilly and llaboratively” wh the wrers — who, he said, “are so good at strikg such a lovely, well-balanced tone between edy and drama, between the everyday and the adrenale-ducg” — to rporate parts of his own inty and lived experience to his breakout the wrers ntued to wre him to major plotl, Kyri disvered that his character was gog to e out as gay at the start of the eighth season.
“Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, and then [wh] this historic moment the ntext of the ‘One Chigo’ world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice, more importantly, ” he said. We are the Natnal EMS & Firefighters Pri Alliance (NEFPA) reprentg Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Firefighters and Emergency Medil Service profsnals and volunteers.
THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR
“I didn't see the effect that there are people who are gay on our job now, who have ntacted me and said that 's really helped them be who they are, ” Griffh said. I half-joke that 2021, I’ll meet Armadillo, a gay Asian Atralian firefighter who specializ direct service work that dismantl environmental racism and sav the hom of fai of lor om stctn by flame. Then, 2022, I’ll n to Armanr, a profsnal gamer named after the Pokémon Charmanr, who acts as a lear the movement to end sexism and homophobia the gamg muny.
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